Competitive Stats

Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms

9 questions across 7 topics. Also examined in GATE DA.

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Programming in Python

16Output of a function with a mutable default list argumentGATE 2026 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DA)Programming in PythonMedium
50Behaviour of closures created by separate calls to an outer functionGATE 2026 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DA)Programming in PythonMedium

Basic Sorting Algorithms

Divide and Conquer

15Expected-time recurrence for quicksort with random pivot positionGATE 2026 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DA)Divide and ConquerMedium

Trees

25Properties of a binary tree from its pre-order and in-order traversalsGATE 2026 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DA)TreesMedium

Search Algorithms

31Worst-case comparisons for an unsuccessful ternary-outcome binary searchGATE 2026 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DA)Search AlgorithmsMedium

Recursion

39Total function calls made computing a Fibonacci-like recursive functionGATE 2026 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DA)RecursionMedium

Graph Algorithms

40Reachability relationship between a graph and its edge-reversed graphGATE 2026 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DA)Graph AlgorithmsHard